[REBOL] Re: Opening a new blog about Rebol?
From: henrik:webz:dk at: 20-Nov-2007 15:33
On 20/11/2007, at 9.25, Petr Krenzelok wrote:
> Alessandro Manotti napsal(a):
>> Just for curiosity, which platforms will be supported from R3?
>> Initial
>> stage? and then which ones are planned?
>>
> I think that RT can recompile for other platforms as requested by
> interested users/customers. The tough call will be porting of platform
> specific things - rebol host environment. RT might have your dll ready
> in few days, but I doubt that you will port surrounding things in such
> short timeframe. But - you CAN, and that is important, as the rest of
> the code is open-source. That should make those radical open-source
> proponents more happy :-)
Flat out: WinXP, Linux and OSX are those of main interest right now.
The OSX porting process was started, but I guess some things are not
yet ready, because it has not yet appeared. I guess Carl is not
finished fighting the module design. (Doesn't help with Gabriele and
Cyphre busy with QTask... grrr :-))
I believe that some ports will be maintained internally by RT while
others will be 3rd party ports and I think also it will be important
to make the porting process very smooth and extremely well
documented, because this is essentially a "build it and they will
come" effort. If the process is smooth enough, more people will be
able to port R3 to their platform.
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Regards,
Henrik Mikael Kristensen